I'm back in black (ACDC song, sorry) –seriously, I wear all black. No, I'm not goth, or emo, but black is just a genius color. Almost as genius as me. Please read, review, and enjoy. Sorry for the no-update thing for a while. Busy days, as usual.

The room was white, with lots of blood all over the place. There were two cots, a buffet-thing, a bookshelf, a television, and a stereo system. In a corner, was Adrasdos, looking pale. Duh, she's a vampire. No, I mean paler than that. She was sitting on a bunch of blankets. She was also wearing cut and scraped clothing.

Valkyrie walked up hesitantly.

"Adrasdos?" she offered. The vampire didn't answer. She just kept her head down. "Adrasdos." Valkyrie stated, placing her hand on the vampire's shoulder. Adrasdos whipped her head up, and let out a feral snarl, making Val step back.

Adrasdos' face immediately straightened. She smiled.

"Sorry, Val. I was sleeping of some sort. You just scared me half to death." Adrasdos admitted, standing up. "We breaking out?" she finished. She hadn't even glanced at me.

"Correction: you're breaking out. I'm free to go." Val filled in. Adrasdos finally raised her eyes, and looked into mine.

"Fletcher, so it is you! Hello." She held out her hand, and I took it. We shook hands. While we were formally greeting, I took Val's hand, and we teleported to my apartment. Val stumbled, but Adrasdos stayed erect. I caught Val.

"Take a seat." I ushered Adrasdos. She did so, in a chair. I sat on the couch with Valkyrie.

"So, how did you manage to get the half a mil.?' Adrasdos started, making good conversation. My girlfriend looked at me expectantly.

"Well, I went to your Uncle's house," I began, looking at Val, "and met Echo-Gordon. I asked him for advice, and he suggested either your reflection, or he had another option.

"So, I teleported to your room, to see your reflection doing your homework. I asked it if it knew anything that could help. It said that it did, but it needed something in return. A kiss. I teleported back to Echo-Gordon as fast as I could, and asked him for the back-up.

"He showed me his study, and gave me a black box. I looked in it, then brought it to Tanith, Skulduggery, and China. Skulduggery was amazed by the genius of an Echo-Stone, Val. We told you the situation, and you suggested Jameson Croon.

"I went to her house, and she showed me Eternal Scene. I had to do a favor for her.

"I took her to Australia, and Eternal blew a gigantic hole in the Sydney Opera house, in order to be on the execution list in Australia. We bolted out of there, and went to New York. Eternal then blew up the elevator shafts of the Empire State Building, and we teleported back to Jameson's.

"AS it turns out, Eternal pick-pocketed fifteen Europeans while we were running, all of which were very rich. Eternal gave me the money, and I waited for about three hours to get to the warehouse." I finished. Adrasdos smiled, then stood up.

"Well, thank you for-er- saving my life. I have to go see Kenspeckle. I guess that I'll see you soon." She stuttered.

"Not to be rude, but why would we see you soon?" I questioned. Adrasdos slapped a hand to her face.

"Val is still bruised an' bloody. She's going to have to get fixed, no?" she smiled, then walked out of the apartment. I turned to Valkyrie.

"I missed you." I uttered.

"Not as much as I missed you." She whispered back.

"Not as much as I missed me." Valkyrie laughed, and slid her hands around my shoulders. I wrapped my hands around her waist. I slowly descended to kiss her. Our lips touched. Val melted into the kiss, intertwining our feet. Her hands were tangled into my already-perfect hair.

Damn. I need to fix that. Back to the hair gel store.

We finally resurfaced for air. Valkyrie glanced at my hair, then giggled. I growled playfully, then began tickling her. She squealed, and began to go into hysterics. She managed to slap me in the face, and I stopped.

"Come…. WE have. To. See. Kenspeckle." She was out of breath from laughing so much. I sighed, and teleported to the room Valkyrie usually stays in. I led her to the sheeted bed. She sat down.

We waited for no more than ten seconds, when Adrasdos walked in. She paused, looking at us.

"Hello." She sighed, crawling onto a bed across the room.

"You know that Kenspeckle hates vampires, no?" I informed.

"You know that currently I don't look like a vampire, no?" Adrasdos retorted, mimicking my voice perfectly. It wasn't true. She still looked like a vampire.

Kenspeckle walked in, and looked at Valkyrie. He face-palmed, and then walked up to her.

"This better be good." I heard him mutter. "Hello, annoying child. Valkyrie." He nodded to both of us.

"Don't forget me!" Adrasdos called. Kenspeckle turned to her, and his smile dropped. He took a large step back, pulling out his seawater.

"Please, Kenspeckle. You really think that that would do something?" Adrasdos pinpointed. Kenspeckle paused, then gruffly put the vial back. "And furthermore- I'm a good vampire. Not good, like Caelan good, because we all know that Caelan sucks. Good as in yeah. Good. Better than Caelan, really. Also, I only eat my prey at night. And what time is it….?"

"11:59pm."

"Damn. Well, I'll be back in the 'morrow. Bye." Adrasdos hopped off the bed, and sprinted out the door.

"That girl…" Kenspeckle trailed off. He turned back to me.

"And you. I already have to lecture detective Pleasant and Valkyrie, but now you? Hell just got a lot colder."

"I'm so excited to get lectured be a 900- year old Yoda wanna be. Who is excited, jumping for joy even. Let's have a show of hands. Anyone?" Kenspeckle gave me the evil eye, then began working on fixing my girlfriend.

"Well, as the victim of another attack, I must inform you that the dangers of surviving this was one to ten thousand, four hundred fifty-six. And furthermore…"

OK. Lecturing Kenspeckle channel. Sorry for no updates people. And thanks for all of the awesome support!

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